Latest News in the food Industry

9 Feb 2015

Member companies of the Yoghurt Live Fermented Milks Association (YLFA), International Probiotics Association (IPA) and Global Alliance for Probiotics (GAP) are joining forces to create a single broad representative platform – a European branch of IPA,...

6 Feb 2015

Danone and Mars have announced the creation of an investment fund aimed at helping companies to learn how to sustainably source the materials they need from smallholder farmers while at the same time delivering large-scale social and economic impact to...

6 Feb 2015

The FAO Food Price Index continued to decline in January, averaging 182.7 points for the month, or 1.9 percent below its December 2014 level. Lower prices reflect strong production expectations as FAO also raised its 2014 forecast for world cereal prod...

5 Feb 2015

A compound found in green tea may trigger a cycle that kills oral cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone, according to Penn State food scientists. The research could lead to treatments for oral cancer, as well as other types of cancer. Earlier ...

5 Feb 2015

Scientists from IBM Research and Mars have established the “Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain”, a collaborative food safety platform that the companies say will leverage advances in genomics to further understanding of what makes fo...

5 Feb 2015

Speciality enzyme development and manufacturing company Biocatalysts has published a new technical bulletin titled ‘The Use of Enzymes in Yeast Extraction’. This, it says, is an in-depth technical document which takes the reader through each stage of y...

5 Feb 2015

Entrepreneurs have reinvented an ancient food for the 21st century, says New Nutrition Business, tapping into consumers’ desire for “good carbs” and healthier snacks and creating a small but fast-growing niche. “By taking grains and sprouting them befo...

4 Feb 2015

Fonterra has reduced its milk volume forecast for the 2014-15 season to 1,532 million kgMS, reflecting the impact of dry weather on production in recent weeks. The new forecast is 3.3% lower than the 1,584 million kgMS collected last season. The previo...

4 Feb 2015

The Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) is to continue collaborating with Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry in the UK as part of what the company describes as a ground-breaking study into how the way we live in chil...

4 Feb 2015

TIC Gums has introduced a new stabiliser system for icing and glaze applications. Ticaloid DG 671 is designed to perform similarly to agar at a lower usage level, providing cost-in-use savings and an answer to a shifting agar market. Agar is often the ...

4 Feb 2015

NIZO says that its Process Scan enables dairy producers to increase production capacity by 10% on average while maintaining optimum product properties and without increasing fixed costs. It is, says the company, one of the best options available to dai...

3 Feb 2015

Frutarom is continuing to implement its rapid growth strategy and has announced its acquisition of FoodBlenders for approximately US$ 2.4 million (£ 1.6 million) plus an additional sum expected to stand at about US$ 600,000 (£ 400,000), depending on th...